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Encounter early America as history unfolded. Experience United States history from the early settlers through the Civil War in fascinating primary source documents, including founding writings, treaties, speeches, poems and letters. Discover pilgrims seeking religious freedom and native peoples seeking to protect their ancestral lands. Encounter colonial citizens fighting for political freedom and abolitionists fighting for freedom of the enslaved. Meet Benjamin Franklin, Sally Withers, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Tecumseh, and more. Tackle the writings of Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, and Alexander Hamilton. The more challenging of these readings are ideal for reading aloud and discussion.

This Reader has also been illustrated with beautiful, full-color, classic paintings to bring early American history to life. As with all Nourished Upon Ideas titles, artwork has been carefully selected to be suitable for readers of all ages.

In this Reader, students will read selections from these documents and more:
- The Mayflower Compact
- The Salem Witch Trials
- Jonathan Edwards' sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
- Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac
- Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense"
- John and Abigail Adam's letters
- Chief Canasatego's speech on
colonizing education
- Edmund Burke's "On Conciliation with
America"
- The Federalist Papers
- The Constitution and Bill of Rights
- Treaty with the Six Nations
- Red Jacket's address to missionaries
- Poems of Wheatley, Emerson, Longfellow
and Dickinson
- The Emancipation Proclamation

History & Humanities is a Charlotte Mason-inspired curriculum for high school and middle school-aged students, covering history, literature, language arts and writing as its core subjects in each cycle. In addition, woven beautifully throughout are threads of citizenship, Bible, philosophy, worldview, government and economics. Using living books, written narration, dictation, picture study and more, this curriculum utilizes Miss Mason's philosophy of education. History & Humanities is also designed to be customizable for varying grade levels, making education simplified for families with multiple ages learning together, and for teachers with multiple grades in a class.